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Caption: ‘________Good Griffith,
Cause the musicians play me that sad note
I named my knell, whilst I sit meditating
On that celestial harmony I go to’
Henry VIII. Act 4, Sc. 2
Illustrator: Engraved by J. Moore from a Daguerreotype by Paine of Islington
Original Illustration Size: 157 x 110mm / 6″2 x 4″12
Illustration Number: 22/22
Source Text: The complete works of Shakspere : revised from the original editions / with historical and analytical introductions to each play, also notes explanatory and critical, and a life of the poet by J.O. Halliwell … and other eminent commentators ; elegantly and appropriately illustrated by portraits engraved on steel, from daguerreotypes of the greatest and most intellectual actors of the age ; taken in the embodiment of the varied and life-like characters of our great national poet / Histories.
Published: London; New York: Printed and published by John Tallis and company [1850].